...One thing I can say is that I do feel fairly confident that if Philippa Boyens is involved in writing the screenplay, whether it be "The Hobbit plus A Sequel" or actually incorporating enough backstory and afterstory to make the whole Hobbit venture into two movies, it will for the most part be really good stuff.

Yeah...I'd like to know that both Fran and Philippa are going to be closely involved in script writing and development. Anybody know what's going on in that area?